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Hello summer

By E on November 26, 2010

Having just returned from my second swim of the year in what must be the best pool in the world (cf. ), I think it’s time to concede that summer has arrived in Cape Town. Just as well, because we have in-laws escaping from winter visiting, and since one of them is a long lost [...]

Posted in Cooking | Tagged apricot jam, biltong, boerewors, braai, firewires, roosterbrood, roosterkoek, sosaties | Leave a response

Secret ingredients

By E on November 9, 2010

Behold the ugliest cake I’ve baked: Yes, it looks pretty nasty. But rest assured that I doctored well it before feeding it to various people and demanding that they guess the secret ingredients. And by doctoring, I mean smothering it in icing which was admittedly too thin simply because I couldn’t bear the idea of [...]

Posted in Cooking, Posts | Tagged chocolate cake, coca cola cake, coca cola marhsmallow cake, mcdonald's immortal burger, rooibos cake, secret ingredient | Leave a response

“If it’s green, it’s trouble. If it’s fried, get double.”

By E on October 29, 2010

I do like that quote, which comes from a TV series called Wings – which I’ve never seen. But as it is so often, we learn by osmosis, and imagine that we know about things that we actually have no experience with. Just the other night, for instance, I had my first taste of Key [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Reading | Tagged deep fried, food critics, Fork, fried green tomatoes, Knife, onion rings, restaurant critics, restaurant reviews | Leave a response

The cookbook review no one asked me to write

By E on October 16, 2010

Once, many many moons ago, I decided it would be a good idea to dye my hair red. I was always envious of dark-haired people because they could do all sorts of cool, subtle things with their hair colour. Auburn sheen, raven black… Not so if you’re a (natural!) blonde, because a) you are naturally [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media | Tagged ice cream, liquorice, liquorice allsorts, marcus wareing, pork belly | Leave a response

Reuben goes topless

By E on October 5, 2010

What happens when you leave a Danish girl alone at home with the fixings for a Reuben? Open-faced, that’s what. With a side of broccoli flash-fried with garlic and rosa tomatoes. Check out those mounds of sauerkraut under delicious melted Emmenthaler. Oh, and plenty of horseradish too. ‘Twas a meal fit for a queen (in [...]

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Today’s hairbrained baking adventures

By E on October 3, 2010

I had wholewheat flour that needed using. And half a tin of tomato cocktail. Throw some horseradish in the mix, and I give you Bloody Mary Bagels. OK, so my bagel rolling techniques need practice, and perhaps the colour and general appearance is a little too reminiscent of that favourite item of #TAPL. But just [...]

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Bunny chow

By E on September 25, 2010

First, catch your rabbit. Or get your friendly German butcher to get someone to catch it for you, and then ask him to cut it into nice little pieces that in no way resemble the Easter bunny (meaning he can keep the ears, eyes, and everything else). Then arrange them in a roasting tin with [...]

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Dinner for one

By E on September 17, 2010

It is rare that I eat alone – and not at all ideal, I might add, simply because try as I might, I cannot by myself conjure up the delightful banter that the Philosophe (co-)provides on a daily basis. Not to mention that it is nowhere near as interesting trying to impress myself with delicious [...]

Posted in Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Rants | Tagged apple olive oil cake, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, masterchef USA, Ottolenghi, popcorn, top chef just desserts, Twitter, wasabi butter, whisky | Leave a response

Not so excellent

By E on August 30, 2010

Here are the things you may not do on the Wheel of Excellence: In other words, no slouching about looking cool (thanks to the Philosophe for the articulate picto-analysis), no throwing out the Rock when you’re playing *that* game, and no showing off the soles of your shoes. You are also not permitted to smoke, [...]

Posted in Posts | Tagged calamari, Clever Philosophe, Ocean Basket, peri peri, Wheel of Excellence | 1 Response

The blue Cosmopolitan that was

By E on August 21, 2010

I’ve been nurturing a craving for cosmopolitan(s). I blame the sun, which has been shining on Cape Town a most unusual amount this “winter”, and has caused more than one person to utter the words “spring has sprung” in the last two weeks. First spring, then summer, and before we know it, the silly season [...]

Posted in Posts | Tagged bloody mary, blue curacao, boerewors, cosmopolitan, silly season, vodka | Leave a response

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